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Youth Dies From Football Injury

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Tahid Ramsey was blocking for a teammate returning a kickoff on Friday when an opposing high-school football player approached. Mr. Ramsey lowered his head and shoulders in anticipation and crashed into the opponent.

Mr. Ramsey, who weighs 140 pounds, fell and did not get up. He died from his injuries this afternoon after he was removed from life support, said Bill Dauster, a spokesman for Jersey City Medical Center.

Mr. Ramsey, 17, the captain of the Snyder High School football team, the Tigers, had been in a coma since Friday night. His family asked that the hospital release no details of his injury.

The death of the popular senior had a traumatic effect on other students, Mr. Dauster said. Eleven students were treated at the center for hyperventilation and other complaints on hearing the news, he said.

''He would tug at your heart,'' Stewart Adkins, the youth's eighth-grade math and reading teacher, told The Jersey Journal. ''You had to love him. He was worth something. It's always the good kids who get hurt or shot.''

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Friends said the 5-foot-6-inch running back and linebacker was dedicated to the game of football. ''He was going to be the next Deion Sanders,'' his friend Kevin Waiters said, referring to the Dallas Cowboys star.